There's nothing cooler than designing artwork for a skateboard deck! Follow this walkthrough in Adobe Illustrator to create your own vibrant and stunning vector artwork using geometric lines, shapes and a perfect colour scheme.

A great looking abstract design can be created from the simplest of shapes. Let's take a look at compiling various geometric shapes and objects to form a dynamic composition in Illustrator, then polishing it all up with some transparency effects to create a trendy vector illustration.

Editor's Pick of July, 2009An Adobe Illustrator drawing tutorial that'll teach you how to create a character starting with the basic shapes and then moving on with more advanced techniques of making realistic fur.

I've been asked a couple of times 'how do you change the size of a rounded rectangle once it has been drawn'. The problem is that when you scale the rounded rectangle as you would a normal shape the rounded corners become squashed or stretched. Well, here is the solution...